SOC275H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Infant Mortality, Nuclear Family, Separate Spheres
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Women were likely to be gatherers (collected berries, etc). Children and elderly did not work: men and women can also switch roles, production was for use not for exchange. You only got enough to eat for yourself. Membership was fluid you can move into other groups. Agricultural families: families were economic units of production, not everyone has access to land, men own the land they have priority access to land and labor. Increased privatization you make your livelihood in your family. You want it to go to your children. Idea that men and women were essentially different. Women were naturally nurturing, loving, and selfless, while men were seen as suited for competitive world of business. Margolis: children came to be seen as having unique needs requiring tender cultivation, women are associated with home and are no more in productive roles.
